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The Festivals and their Meaning

EASTER

RUDOLF STEINER

Eight lectures given between the years 1908 and 1921

With a Foreword by A. P. Shepherd

Anthroposophical Publishing Company

London

First Published 1956

Publication by permission of the

Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung.

Translation, from shorthand reports unrevised

by the lecturer, edited and revised by

D.S.O., A.P.S. and C.D.

Printed by Lawrence Bros. Ltd., London and Weston-super-

Mare (9153)

CONTENTS

Foreword by A. P. Shepherd

I Easter: the Festival of Warning. The Event at Damascus and

the new Knowledge of the Spirit Dornach, 2nd April, 1920

II The Blood-relationship and the Christ-relationship

Dornach, 3rd April, 1920

III The Death of a God and its Fruits in Humanity Düsseldorf,

5th May, 1912

IV Spirit Triumphant Dornach, 27th March, 1921

V The Teachings of the Risen Christ The Hague, 13th April,

1912

VI Easter: the Mystery of the Future Berlin, 13th April, 1908

VII Spiritual Bells of Easter. I The Macrocosmic and the

Microcosmic Fire. The Spiritualisation of the Breath and of

the Blood Cologne, 10th April, 1909

VIII Spiritual Bells of Easter. II The Event of Golgotha. The

Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The spiritualised Fire Cologne,

11th April, 1909

Opening Remarks

In his autobiography, The Story of My Life , Rudolf Steiner

speaks as follows concerning the character of this privately

printed matter:

“The contents of this printed matter were intended as oral

communications and not for print ...

“Nothing has ever been said that was not the purest result of

Anthroposophy as it developed ... Whoever reads this

privately printed matter can take it in the fullest sense as that

which Anthroposophy has to say. Therefore it was possible,

and moreover without misgivings ... to depart from the

accepted custom of circulating these publications only among

the membership. But it will have to be remembered that faulty

passages occur in the transcripts which I myself did not revise.

“The right to form a judgment on the content of such privately

printed matter can be admitted only in the case of one who

has acquired the requisite preliminary knowledge. And in

respect to these publications, this is, at the very least, the

anthroposophical knowledge of man and of the cosmos, in so

far as it is presented in Anthroposophy, and of what is to be

found as ‘anthroposophical history’ in the communications

from the spiritual world.”

FOREWORD

To Rudolf Steiner the Mystery of Golgotha was far more than

the central event of the Christian religion. It was the pivotal

event of the whole divine process of creation, of the whole

process of human evolution from its beginnings in the womb

of the Spirit to its final far-distant consummation in man's

attainment of his divine nature. Its significance, he held, must

be looked for in all human history, in all the arts, in human

thinking, in all social relationships, and, if men could but see

it, even in the materialistic triumphs of science.

So too the Christian Festivals were never for him merely the

commemoration of the great historical events or truths of the

Christian revelation. They are in themselves, each year,

spiritual events, carrying a significance that grows and

deepens with the developing phases of human evolution.

Especially is this true of the Easter Festival, with its answer to

man's deepest needs, its quickening of his highest hopes; with

its message of the victory of good over evil, of light over

darkness, of life over death. Again and again, from all points

of view, Rudolf Steiner lectured upon the deep meaning of the

Easter Festival in the eternal working of the divine worlds

upon mankind, in the prefiguring myths and symbols of the

ancient Mystery religions, in its relation to the world of nature

and the cosmic universe, in which the date of its keeping

contains unique, but almost forgotten, significance. But, above

all, he speaks of it as the Festival of man's spiritual future, the

Festival of Hope and also the Festival of Warning.

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